>fastest selling console of all time, beating even the wii
>2+ years in
>literally zero original third party exclusives
>all third party ports from last gen or older
>nintendo's own first party games are filled with jaggies and framerate drops
>they don't even bother to port anything besides obscure NES games
>but muh indies
So is the Switch hardware just that hard to develop for? It boggles my mind that besides the witcher, no publishers are downgrading ports to put on this thing.
I only buy nintendo for zelder and mario
Kind of
The issue is that it uses a fundamentally different core architecture compared to most other systems. It uses ARM architecture for graphics and processing, which requires a ton of different optimization and memory management and multi-threading tricks than a normal console which can just hardware-accelerate through most small issues.
The other big issue is that the Switch support from big engines like UE4 isn't really that great out-of-the-box because it's often pretty bloated for the most part and requires a lot of tuning to get to a place where games perform well.
Hence, why the best looking Switch games tend to be the ones that use their own in-house engine, like Splatoon or MK8D or Bayo2 or Mario Odyssey
The portabilty meme is one hell of a drug. But Nintendo makes as much retarded decisions like the PSVita. I wish the 3DS was upgraded to HD instead and the Switch was a much more powerful home console.
>no publishers are downgrading ports to put on this thing.
they're trying but it's different than downgrading ports for the Wii or Wii U, or even backwards porting games like GTAV to PS3 and 360.
The issue is that it's not even hard to develop for, it's just different.
ARM architecture systems have been around forever but it has usually had dedicated teams since even basic stuff like how you access info off the 16 bus cartridge is sort of specialized knowledge.
>t boggles my mind that besides the witcher, no publishers are downgrading ports to put on this thing.
What about Skyrimjobs
Emulate the exclusives. PC and PS4 are games with good online and worthwhile to own.
That's an Xbox 360 game
The only good PS4 exclusive worth playing can be played on PSNow (which I was genuinely surprised to hear existed)
What are you talking about you stupid fuck?